Society for American Archaeology

This collection contains the abstracts and presentations from the Society for American Archaeology annual meetings. SAA has partnered with Digital Antiquity to archive their annual conference abstracts and make the presentations available. This collection contains meeting abstracts and presentations dating from 2015 to the present.

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The Society for American Archaeology (SAA) is an international organization dedicated to the research, interpretation, and protection of the archaeological heritage of the Americas. With more than 7,000 members, the society represents professional, student, and avocational archaeologists working in a variety of settings including government agencies, colleges and universities, museums, and the private sector.

Site Name Keywords
44CE0085 • La Quemada • Nevada • Alta Vista • ontario • Gordion • Ceren • El Teúl • Las Ventanas • Buenavista

Site Type Keywords
Domestic Structure or Architectural Complex • Non-Domestic Structures • Resource Extraction / Production / Transportation Structure or Features • Archaeological Feature • Domestic Structures • Settlements • Rock Art • Agricultural or Herding • Ball Court • Artifact Scatter

Other Keywords
Historic • Zooarchaeology • Maya: Classic • Cultural Resources and Heritage Management • Ceramic Analysis • Landscape Archaeology • Material Culture and Technology • Geoarchaeology • Lithic Analysis • Survey

Culture Keywords
Historic • Ancestral Puebloan • Historic Native American • Mogollon • Woodland • Archaic • Euroamerican • Spanish • PaleoIndian • Hopewell

Investigation Types
Heritage Management • Methodology, Theory, or Synthesis • Collections Research • Archaeological Overview • Data Recovery / Excavation • Systematic Survey • Architectural Documentation • Reconnaissance / Survey • Ethnographic Research • Ethnohistoric Research

Material Types
Ceramic • Fauna • Chipped Stone • Macrobotanical • Building Materials • Metal • Wood • Dating Sample • Ground Stone • Human Remains

Temporal Keywords
Civil War • Mimbres Classic period • Ancestral Puebloan / Sedentary through Classic Period • 19th Century • Historic • Magdalenian • 1880-1920 • Pueblo I and II • Postclassic • Prehistoric

Geographic Keywords
North America (Continent) • United States of America (Country) • Belize (Country) • USA (Country) • United Mexican States (Country) • Republic of Panama (Country) • Republic of El Salvador (Country) • Republic of Guatemala (Country) • Netherlands Antilles (Country) • Aruba (Country)

Resources Inside This Collection (Viewing 19,001-19,100 of 19,165)

  1. Working on the Margins of the Modern World and Within Archaeology: The Historical Archaeology of Late Nineteenth- and Early Twentith-Century Ireland (2017)
  2. Working Together for the Past: Developing a Stewardship Program for Oklahoma (2019)
  3. Working Together for the Past: Maine's Casco Bay Islands Public Archaeology (2023)
  4. Working Together to Save Our Culture: Creating a Tribal Register of Historical Places (2017)
  5. Working toward a Lost Cause? Comparing Handheld XRF Analysis to Neutron Activation Analysis and Petrography Using Maya Ceramics from Holtun, Guatemala (2021)
  6. Working toward Collective Benefit? Reflections on Community Based Participatory Research in Cangahua, Ecuador (2019)
  7. Working Towards an Exportable Indigenous Heritage Management and Cultural Ranger Program in the Ikh Nart Nature Reserve, Mongolia. (2015)
  8. Working Towards Collaboration: a Model of Interaction between Archaeology Professionals and Avocationalists (2019)
  9. Working with Scotty: Perspectives on A Peripheral Paper Designed for the Ayacucho-Huanta Archaeological-Botanical Project (2018)
  10. Working with the Ejido: Negotiating Archaeology and Local Politics in Michoacán, Mexico (2015)
  11. Working Within the Curves: Examining Issues of Resolution and Accuracy When Using Sea-Level Curves in Archaeological Contexts (2016)
  12. Working, Living, and Dying Together: Rethinking Marginality, Sex, and Heterarchy in Kayenta Communities (AD 900-1150) (2019)
  13. The Workings of Classic Maya Marketplace Exchange from the Perspective of the Buenavista del Cayo Marketplace (2016)
  14. The Works Progress Administration, Tennessee Valley Authority, and Geophysics: Bringing Together Digital Geophysical Data and Historic Excavation Results for Comprehensive Data Sets (2018)
  15. The World as His Oyster: Our Journey with Alan Simmons (2019)
  16. The World Bank’s Approaches To Valuing Cultural Heritage (2016)
  17. World Heritage Listings, Changing Climate, and the Salalah Doctrine: Archaeological Heritage Management at Nan Madol Monument, Pohnpei, FSM (2018)
  18. The World of Secret Societies: Dynamics from the Northwest (2015)
  19. The World of the Living and the World of the Dead - A Bronze Age Monumental Landscape in Central Mongolia (2019)
  20. A World of Wrapped Symbols: Bundling and Iconography on Southeastern Ceramics from the Lemley Collection (2016)
  21. World prehistories and the development of a global archaeological narrative (2017)
  22. A Worm’s Eye View of Chimú Domestic Practice (2019)
  23. Worn Down: Dental Attrition and Dietary Differences at an Early Medieval Settlement in Central Europe (2021)
  24. Woven Traces: Evidence of Basketry from Masis Blur (Armenia) (2023)
  25. Wrestling That 200-Pound Gorilla in the Room: Practical Solutions for the Care and Management of Associated Records (2018)
  26. Wrinkle-free Clothing: Conservation and Rehousing of Prehistoric Cotton Textiles from Navajo, Walnut Canyon, and Wupatki National Monuments, Arizona (2016)
  27. Writers on the Storm: A Terminal Classic Migrant Maya Scribal Household (2016)
  28. Writing on the Wall: Patterns of Discourse in Undergraduate Graffitti (2021)
  29. Written in Stone: 10,000 Years of Activity at the Acushnet LNG Site (2018)
  30. Written in Stone: Lithic Analysis at the Acushnet LNG Site (2019)
  31. WTF do API, JSON, CSV, and LOD mean? Instruction and professional development in digital archaeology (2017)
  32. The Wupatki Petroglyph Project (2018)
  33. WWII Battlefield Archaeology of Tarawa (2017)
  34. WWPAED? (2019)
  35. WyoARCH: An Update on Digital Developments to Improve Professional and Public Interaction with Federal Repositories (2019)
  36. WyoARCH: Increasing the Impact of Archaeological Repositories through Spatially-Enabled Collections Management (2018)
  37. Wyoming Dinwoody Tradition Rock Art Superimpositions (2016)
  38. X-Ray Analysis of Mandibles from a 2000 Year-Old Bison Kill Site in Western Oklahoma (2015)
  39. X-ray Fluorescence (XRF) and Morphological Analysis of Trade Beads from Palau, Micronesia (2017)
  40. Xalla, Teotihuacan: A Multifunctional Palace for the Ruling Elite of Teotihuacan (2017)
  41. Xaltocan, resultados preliminares del salvamento en la interconexión aeroportuaria (2021)
  42. Xanthosoma violaceum and the Maya Diet: Root Crop Use in Ancient Maya Agriculture (2015)
  43. Xibalba in Technicolor: The Popol Wuj and the Interpretation of Ancient Maya Art (2023)
  44. Xipe Totec and Elite Domestic Ritual in Late Classic Oaxaca, Mexico (2016)
  45. Xmucane and Her Granddaughters: Maya Women as Creators of Time (2023)
  46. XRF Analysis of North Carolina Piedmont Ceramics to Locate Source of Production and Trade at Rural Plantation Sites (2018)
  47. An XRF Analysis of Redware Artifacts from Hanna's Town, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania (2015)
  48. XRF and Raman Spectroscopic Analysis of Pigments Used in Middle Horizon Polychrome Ceramics from Cochabamba, Bolivia (2023)
  49. The XSX Ranch Site: Excavations of a Late Classic Mimbres to Early Post Classic Pueblo in the Upper Gila Forks, New Mexico (2018)
  50. Xunantunich Reloaded:Examining the Socio-Political Significance of Structure A9 (2017)
  51. ¿Y antes de la playa de Vicente?: Cronología de sitios prehispánicos en el Tesechoacán. (2016)
  52. Yama Village: Community College Students Develop an Archaeological Analysis of a Historic Transnational Japanese Community in Washington State. (2017)
  53. A Yard and It’s Belongin’s: Archaeological Research of Laborer Houseyards on the Morne Patat Estate, Dominica (2017)
  54. The YAS-1 Middle Stone Age site at Gona, Afar, Ethiopia (2016)
  55. The Yaxhom Valley Survey II (2019)
  56. Ychsma Cultural Identity in Armatambo during Inca's Occupation, Peruvian Central Coast (2018)
  57. Ye Olde Fishing Hole: A Late Paleolithic Fishing Camp, Wadi Kubbaniya, Egypt (2016)
  58. Year One of New Excavations at the Paleo Crossing (33ME274) Clovis Site, Ohio: The 2017 Field Season (2018)
  59. Year-round shellfish harvesting during the Middle to Late Holocene on the northwest coast Baja California (2017)
  60. Years to Remember: Another Look at Teotihuacan’s Calendrical Signs (2021)
  61. Yes! You Can Have Access to That! Increasing and Promoting the Accessibility of Maryland’s Archaeological Collections (2016)
  62. Yes! You Can Still Dig, but, Please Plan Ahead. NAGPRA Section 3 New Discoveries in Land Management (2019)
  63. Yet Another Tale of Two Cities: Santiago en Almolonga and San Salvador in the Early Sixteenth Century (2018)
  64. Yikes, no comparative collection! Can 3D imaging produce robust faunal identifications? (2017)
  65. You Are How You Eat: Changes in Dining Style and Society at Late Bronze I Alalakh (2017)
  66. You are what you eat? - Did food consumption reflect status, ethnical or cultural differentiation on the island of Saba between the late 18th to the early 20th century? (2016)
  67. You Can Bet on the (Rural) Farmer: Agriculture and Urbanism at Postclassic Mayapán (2023)
  68. You Come from Where? Ceramics and Cultural Exchange at Palmetto Junction (2019)
  69. “You discover 1d4 ancient relic(s)”: Archaeological Outreach through Tabletop Roleplaying Games (2023)
  70. You go first. An agent-based model of mating-migration between early farming and foraging societies (2015)
  71. You Read It; Don't Forget It: Designing Activities That Help Students Learn (2018)
  72. You Sleep Alone, Away from People: Understanding the Movement of Hobos and Other Transient Laborers (ca. 1880 – 1940) (2017)
  73. You Spin Me Right Round: Reading Southwest Indented Corrugated Pottery for Movement and Directionality (2019)
  74. You're Going to Carry that Weight a Long Time (2018)
  75. Younger Dryas Fluted Technologies: A Comparison of Folsom, Cumberland, and Barnes Technologies (2017)
  76. Your Horse Is a Donkey! Identifying Domesticated Equids Using ZooMS (2023)
  77. Youthful Visions of Time and Place: Photovoice Methodology in Three Maya Communities (2019)
  78. You’re Building What Where?: Innovation with MOAs in the Far North (2019)
  79. You’re Not from Around Here, Are You? Ceramic Figurines and Interregional Interaction in the Tres Zapotes Region (2017)
  80. You’ve Got Tools: Evaluating Comparability Among 3D Lithic Angle Measurement Tools (2023)
  81. Yucatec and Gulf Coast Influences in Terminal Classic Western Belize: Examining the Evidence and Processes for Change (2023)
  82. Yumbos and the construction of their cultural landscape (2017)
  83. Yup’ik Tool Use at Temyiq Tuyuryak—Indigenous Approaches to Artifact Analysis (2019)
  84. Yuzanu 36, a Late Archaic Site in the Mixteca Alta (2018)
  85. Yuzanu 50, An Early Paleoindian Site in the Mixteca Alta (2018)
  86. Zapotec Economy in Late Classic Jalieza: Through the Lens of Ceramic Annalysis (2015)
  87. Zapotec Funerary Rites as Documented by Alfonso Caso: Mining Archival Materials to Understand Ancient Ritual Behavior at Monte Albán (2023)
  88. Zapotec Funerary Tradition: A Perspective Between Bioarchaeology and Landscape Archaeology (2019)
  89. Zapotitlan Earth Ovens and Their Middens: Ethnoarchaeology in Colima, Mexico (2023)
  90. Zelia Nuttall and Drake's Dream (2021)
  91. Zelia Nuttall and The Vexed Question: Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea (2015)
  92. Zero to Hero: Elite Burials and Hero Cults in Early Iron Age Greece and Cyprus (2018)
  93. Zimmerman's Influence on World Archaeology (2018)
  94. Zones of Refuge: Resisting Conquest in the Northern Philippine Highlands through Agricultural Practice (2017)
  95. Zoning Regulations and Comprehensive Plans: Bringing Historic Preservaion Home (2015)
  96. Zooanthropomorph Iconography in the Gran Coclé, Gran Chiriqui and Tairona areas (2018)
  97. Zooarch, A Statistical Package for Zooarchaeologists (2016)
  98. ZooaRch: General Audience Release of an R Graphical User Interface for Zooarchaeologists. (2017)
  99. Zooarchaeologial inferences and analogical reasoning at Chavin de Huantar (Peru) (2015)
  100. Zooarchaeological Analysis of a Guangala Pit at Rio Chico, Ecuador (N4C3-170) (2019)